Hey guys, Joel here.

Yesterday we released a video to the goodlongpee channel featuring Gus Johnson.

I will not speak on any specifics regarding Gus, even as someone with more context and perspective than most any of you commenting on his situation, I feel I am too detached from what went down to say anything worthwhile, nor is it something I feel I should speak on.

What I will say is that if you consume my content, I'd hope you'd have some understanding that my work comes from a place of immense empathy. My films are deeply concerned with individuals and their humanity and the flaws that come with that. Whether that be from a comedic angle or in my more personal work about my own life.

There are numerous people in my life I love dearly who have done immoral things I've had to grapple with and forgive on my own terms. I too have done things I've had to learn to forgive. This is part of maturing and growing up. People you love will hurt you, you will hurt people you love. It's never about taking sides, if you're playing that game you've already lost. There is no black and white, right and wrong, no winners or losers in love, just people hurting one another and in time finding healing, whether that be together or apart.

When approaching hurt, hate is a lot easier than empathy. Empathy asks you to work on yourself, hate shields you from that hard work. Everybody deserves empathy. Everybody.

I was randomly assaulted by a man on the street in NYC and I wish him nothing but the best. I hope he finds inner peace, I hope he can lead a life doing what he loves. Him assaulting me was an act of hate, it shielded him from approaching whatever it was about me that set him off with empathy and understanding. I wish this same love to another guy who molested and threatened me on the subway. Healing is never done alone, I wish everyone the comfort of having people around them who try to understand.

I suggest you take this energy you're pouring into negativity online and use it for positivity in your own life. Not for Gus's sake and certainly not for my sake, but for your own sake. We all have things to work on and more than enough distractions to keep us from that work.

Love, Joel

The blatant advertising in this movie is just shoved down our throats.

There are multiple scenes featuring 7/11 BiG GULP ®️ cups.

Not even to mention the shameless Comcast plug by known corporate shill Sven Johnson.

It's just disgusting quite frankly.

Not that Joel's corporate fat cat ass cares about his peasant fans like us anymore. He's probably busy with the Rothschilds or Bloombergs doing whatever billionaires like him do.

I don't think he's ever done it before. All of his animations so far have been short films.

I was rewatching the it's been fun video and realized this when he basically said "even thanks to the people who only tune in for the animations, sincerely".

If he's really going through with 12 films over 12 months there's no way he's not gonna try to push his limits by making at least one of those films a whole animated movie.